In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.

If only evil things are done by evil people... Life would be then safe, morally elevated, cozy - we know how to spot evil people and what to do with them to pay for their crimes.

It is more or less clear that one idea which should emerge from the crash, whatever happens with the attempts to save the banks from bankruptcy and people from being evicted from their homes, is that this kind of life is unsustainable. We cannot go on like this... something must be done.

Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.

People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.

Most young people today prefer just to move in together and stay together as long, but no longer, as satisfaction lasts.

We already have plenty of fundamentalism and fundamental sects like for instance Rabbi Schneerson and Chabad Lubavitch. They feel more secure because they are in the warm, caring/sharing community. This is the difference between community (Gemeinschaft) and what Ferdinand Tönnies called Gesellschaft: a kind of setting in which you have no rights to do anything unless you pay for it, and no right to get anything unless you prove that you are 'credit worthy'. In a Gemeinschaft, however, you have a place at the table guaranteed whatever happens.